The New York Times Company, a leading media company with 2010 revenues of $2.4 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers and more than 50 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.

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The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.

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Research Engineer - The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company, a leading media company with 2010 revenues of $2.4 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers and more than 50 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.

The New York Times Company's Research and Development group is looking for a talented developer to serve as the Research Engineer for Knowledge Management. The New York Times has one of the world's great archives and our ideal candidate will be passionate about creating innovative prototypes, systems, standards and products from this amazing resource. We are looking for someone with an innate curiosity and a passion for innovation and who has the ability to channel this passion into both individual and team projects.

Responsibilities
· Conceptualize and develop prototypes for innovative knowledge management products and services with an emphasis on linked data technologies
· Solidify existing prototypes into production products and systems
· Keep abreast of the evolving knowledge management landscape including the emergence of new standards, technologies and systems
· Deeply understand the New York Times Company's data assets and how these assets can be leveraged to create useful systems and compelling new experiences

The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.

Metropolitan Musem of Art hiring a Semantic Web Developer

the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Digital Media Department is hiring for an Information Systems Developer.
This position will be involved in advanced data architecture solutions, to support a variety of web and in-gallery technology.

This work may entail:
- Setting up and administering triple stores, NoSQL dbs, and CMSs like Drupal
- designing interfaces, modules, and workflows for same
- Implementing collective intelligence algorithms,
- experimenting with new technologies, developing prototypes and proofs-of-concept
- and (to be honest) some drudgery, like data delivery, ETL, and report generation

Job/Contracting Work - NYC

Date: 5/14/2011

Description:

Hello,

I am looking to speak to people with Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning experience regarding a potential project to help analyze Social Media data/perform sentiment analysis. Ideal candidate will have an academic background in different NLP/Machine Learning theories, frameworks and real-world implementations. A background in programming is a plus. Pay is competitive. Please send me a message if you are interested in having a discussion to learn more about the opportunity. Please contact me at: igorgonta@yahoo.com.

Gluejar is Hiring

Date:3/1/2011

Description:
We have funding for 4 positions, ranging from Engineering to Marketing, in a metadata-rich problem space.

Metadata Manager at the Associated Press (New York City)

Date:2/25/2011

Description:
The Associated Press is seeking a Metadata Manager for its New York City and/or Cranbury, NJ office locations.

The Metadata Manager will be responsible for developing and maintaining metadata standards across AP’s diverse set of content and products. Responsibilities will include all aspects of working with metadata schema, such as information modeling, XML validation, transformation and testing. Additional duties will include maintaining schema artifacts (like XML schema definitions, metadata mapping tables and editorial workflow documentation), performing metadata and content analysis, and developing technical specifications for populating and transforming metadata structures and values. This position reports to the Deputy Director of Schema Standards and is within the AP’s Information Management group.

Primary responsibilities

Collaborate with journalists, technologists, product development and members of the Information Management team to define and document metadata schema across media types and products.

Gather business requirements for content and content metadata, and capture and maintain business rules related to metadata modeling and transforms.

Design, develop and execute content and metadata analyses, interpret results and provide written summaries and reports.

Work with Development and QA to specify and test schemas and transforms and to communicate changes to stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Familiarity with XML and XML schema languages. Knowledge of XPath, XSLT or XQuery a plus.

University of Minnesota Libraries Seeks Drupal Developers

Date: 11/2/2010

The University of Minnesota Libraries seeks two or more talented Drupal
software developers, for either one or two year appointments, to design and
support new, innovative web-based library services, systems, and tools which
address as well as anticipate the evolving needs of library users.

The University Libraries are supporting multiple projects using the Drupal
platform. Responsibilities could include two or more of the following areas
of Drupal development:

In collaboration with our partners in the American Indian Studies department, provide primary development support for the forthcoming Online Ojibwe Dictionary. Responsibilities include addressing both content provider and user needs in developing a robust web application using the Drupal framework.

Provide development support for the University Libraries' UMedia Archive (umedia.lib.umn.edu), a digital library application that provides users with access to many of the Libraries rich media collections as well as allowing for user submitted uploads. Using Drupal, work to integrate new features and support current mechanisms that help further the enhance the user experience.

Assist in implementing the Drupal CMS for the main public facing web site of the University Libraries (www.lib.umn.edu) , creating customization and personalization options for library users, helping in the creation of mobile version of library web site(s), designing new sites, and using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Projects may also likely include further integration of library resources into the Moodle course management tool, implementation of Shibboleth identity management system, and creatively using various API's made available by Google, OCLC, Amazon, Ex Libris and other library vendors.

Elevator Pitch: We provide smart data personalization services when shopping, browsing and sharing on the internet. [Translation: Our goal is to be the next generation of Nielsens or NPD Group using a combination of linked data technologies, rule based information retrieval with natural language processing and learning systems/ machine learning]

i.e. we have a REALLY cool idea and a very disruptive business model.

411: Early stage, *funded* start up (with a Fortune 1000 pilot customer), looking for the Head of Development who can build a team and a platform and has a good understanding of natural language processing, data extraction, information retrieval, machine learning and familiar with semantic technologies, of course. The ideal candidate has a MS or PhD or PhD candidate, is an out of the box academic thinker who knows how to code in Python/C++.

We are planning to build our front end using modern, web-facing technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, etc.), and implement our back-end services and algorithms in the most dynamic programming environment that is up to the task (but momentum as of late is *strongly* leaning towards Python). The candidate will solidify this decision for us. (Note: our core libaries and ontologies are pretty built out, we are building apps for them to become living entities- which would be part of your job)

Candidates should have experience in the product management cycle, on-time delivery, and great communication skills. Agile and XP development methodologies are good skills. Scrum is cool. If you don't know something, it is important to admit it and be psyched to learn.

MUST BE LOCATED IN OR AROUND THE NY METRO AREA. WE ARE IN NYC.

Contact: charlotte@covetedlist.com

User Interface Developer - OrangeDog

Date: 5/6/2010

Description:
I am putting together a "semantic applications" startup, with several semantic applications in mind.

The first area I am looking at is data integration and user interfaces using ontologies. I have already written software for both the data integration and the user interface side of things. The software works quite nicely -- it is well beyond a prototype (it's stable, modular, not too slow, etc). The integration side of the software is much more mature than the user interface side (I am no user interface designer!).

I have also written a detailed business plan. I am now actively looking for startup funding (the usual angel, VC, etc stuff), and I am looking for people who may be interested in joining the startup, as both employees, and as equity holders, founders, etc.

I am specifically interested in finding someone with interest and expertise in user interfaces.

This isn't a user experience position, it's an engineering/coding position. The UI person will have two roles. The first is the standard one of writing UIs for the various applications we have. Pretty straightforward stuff. The second role is to build so called "semantic" user interfaces. These are interfaces that are generated from ontologies. This role is very open ended. There is basically an endless scope here for a creative user interface developer, as there are a lot of interesting things you can do when generating UIs from ontologies.

Essentially the person I am looking for needs to be a really good UI coder, plus able to understand what ontologies bring to the table (you don't necessarily need to know this now, but be capable of learning it), and hence how users may want to interact with them visually, plus have a good visual sense, since the UI person will be in charge of the user interface side of our product suite. They must have a passion for understanding and learning how end users want to use both user interfaces and ontologies, and hence how they can support those end users -- we are relentlessly client focussed.

To be clear -- I cannot pay anyone at this point as I haven't got funding yet. So for the moment this all has to be for equity consideration. If we do get funded this turns into a full time job.

We are located on the west coast of the US in Los Angeles, but you don't have to be. Getting quality people is more important to us than having them in the "right" location. If you are interested, or know anyone interested, please drop me a line at graham@orangedogconsulting.com.

Web Developer - Reflexions Data

Location: White Plains (Westchester/NYC)

Date: 4/2/2010

Description:
Reflexions Data is a growing company of creative innovators that develops web applications for clients in a variety of industries including publishing, marketing, retail e-commerce, internet startups and non-profit organizations. We are an equal opportunity employer (M/F/D/V).

We've been around for 10+ years and our office is a casual, fast-paced environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits including group health insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan.

Requirements:

Must be willing to work in a closely knit team environment and must demonstrate a passion for solving business problems with technology.

At least 2 years of web/software application design and development experience.

Extensive knowledge and experience with UNIX/Linux.

Intimate familiarity with web standards and front-end technologies including XHTML, CSS, and Javascript/AJAX.

Do you read Slashdot every day? Do you see regular expressions in your dreams or write Python code for fun? Then we encourage you to introduce yourself! This is a great mid-level position with opportunities for advancement.

Metadata Librarian/Analyst - Bloomberg

Location: Skillman, NJ

Date: 4/1/2010

The Company
Bloomberg is the world’s most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® 24-hour network delivers smart television to more than 240 million homes. BLOOMBERG RADIO® services broadcast via SIRIUS XM Radio and 1worldspaceTM satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. The award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® financial news and information Web site provide news and insight to businesses and investors.

The Role
Bloomberg is looking for a highly motivated individual to join a newly formed information-retrieval group. As a Librarian/Analyst within this group, you will be part of a team dedicated to helping provide the next generation in Bloomberg Terminal usability to our clients by standardizing, organizing, and ensuring accuracy of keyword databases to support a new information-retrieval system. The successful candidate will apply taxonomy and ontology principles to create and manage metadata to improve ‘findability’ of resources, diagnose and fix inconsistencies, solve reference issues, analyze linguistic usage patterns and perform basic data analysis tasks.

Senior Software Engineer - daylife

Location: New York City

Date: 3/18/2010

Description:
Come to Daylife and help us build the future of online news. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop scalable systems for organizing and delivering information to people and organizations around the world. Add new features to our customer APIs; improve the performance of our search systems; enhance the quality of our information extraction; evolve our engineering tools to tighten our release cycles.

Senior Semantic and Search Architect - Financial Services

Location: New York City

Date: 3/15/2010

Description:
Responsible for architecture of a content mining and semantic based product offerings for the Knowledge Management Practice Area. Researches, analyzes, and recommends technologies to develop new and enhance existing systems to support
semantic requirements. Serves as a technical expert and is responsible for resolving complex problems and guiding development to improve the application of search and semantic technologies.

Required Skills and Experience:
BS in Computer Science or a related field, MS preferred
Extensive experience with distributed software development
Data mining and predictive modeling skills
Strong OO knowledge
Expertise in C#.Net or Java
Comfortable with distributed development environments and tools
Minimum of 10 years development experience
Excellent communication skills
Experience with Search technologies – Autonomy IDOL/ FAST/ Verity / Lucene
Experience with mentoring software development resources.
Experience with scoping the technical side of client facing products that require scale and contextual consumer experiences.
Experience with understanding usage flows and has experience with mining historical consumer choice data to make a service more intelligent about consumer options.
Experience in technical architectures for search applications, including data structures and algorithms to support entity extraction, disambiguation, normalization and clustering.
Experience with architecture models and design patterns to support development and maintenance of taxonomies and knowledge bases. Ideal candidate has been working on ways to accomplish this in an enterprise environment using open source
or by using data available from multiple sources.

User Interface Designer - Kikin

Kikin is searching for a User Interface Designer to work directly with our VP of Product on the user interface design. You will also be responsible for creating working product mock-ups for our key clients and partners that demonstrate Kikin's custom product capabilities.

Our user interface designer will help us fulfill our mission of making it SIMPLE to navigate the web. This person will be the leader when it comes to making this process much easier than it is today. You will be asked to create beautiful designs that are obvious to our users. This isn't going to be a run of the mill HTML and CSS job - we're looking for someone that is going to dig in and create an experience that makes our web platform legendary. You'll be running the UI show which will include: brainstorming design and usability options, building simple wire frames, deliver clean, elegant HTML, CSS and javascript. We have ideas for how our features might look good--you know how to design them so we get unsolicited calls about how amazing the site is.

You get a thrill from building things people love to use. You think the best interfaces are the ones that get out of the way and let people do their work, not necessarily the ones that grab the most attention. You're constantly finding the sweet spot between beauty and usability. You know users are impatient and you don't have much time to impress them. You're oozing with creativity. When someone asks you how you'd design something, you immediately think of ten completely different options. You can mock them up in minutes, not hours, and you can objectively evaluate the most usable. You're as comfortable drawing sketches on paper napkins as you are throwing layers around in Adobe Creative Suite 4. You feed off the energy and enthusiasm of others. Simply put, you love the challenge of building a great user experience from inception to delivery.
What you need:

Skills

2+ years experience with HTML/CSS development and graphic design for professional web projects

Detailed knowledge of HTML/CSS standards

Basic javascript proficiency

Graphic Design (You really know your way around a professional graphics package)

Strong understanding of web application usability

Portfolio of some of your past work

About Us

At Kikin, we’re driven to revolutionize online & mobile navigation, services, and advertising. Using proprietary client-side technology, kikin provides on-the-fly, browser-based enhancements that deliver personalization, increased relevance, richer merchandising and content, and integrated services-- all without users having to change any of their existing behavior. kikin supports all popular search engines, major service providers, browsers, operating systems, etc.

Kikin offers a fantastic environment and a team of bright, dynamic people from all over the world. We are dedicated to fundamentally changing the way people navigate and use the Internet and having a great time doing it.

While maintaining a low profile, we’re testing in beta and continue to win key partnerships with major content, commerce, service providers, OEM distributors and developers. Kikin was founded by seasoned entrepreneurs with successful track records. Operations have been established in the U.S. (NYC) and Europe (Berlin), and will be established in China (Shanghai) and Japan (Tokyo) by the end of Q4CY09.

This position is full-time in New York City (SOHO). This is not a telecommute or contract role.
No third-party, sub-contractors/agencies. Unfortunately sponsorship are Not available.

We will require credible work references/background check.
Salary commensurate with experience.

Team Lead/ Back End Search, Data Engineer - kikin

The Opportunity:

The Java Developer position at kikin is working on enhancing kikin’s next-generation internet application and services.
Software development tasks are focused on information retrieval, data mining, relationship mapping and collaborative filtering.

Responsibilities

Lead a small team that will:

Participate in all stages of development including Design, Implementation, and Testing of our next-generation Federated search and Personalization back end

Integrate Content, Commerce, or Service Partner data and functionality into our backend

Collaborate with analysts and product management on engaging features and algorithms

Work on specifications that address evolving business requirements, user interfaces, process flow, performance, and scalability

Test-driven development and iterative self-correction must be second nature

Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work in a fast paced startup environment

Database Architect - Edifice

Location: Northern New Jersey

Date: February 20, 2010

The Opportunity: Our innovative company is looking for a brilliant database architect to design the back-end of a new SaaS product. If this is you or someone you know, please contact me directly: nbruce[at]EdificeInfo.com

We are a consulting and recruiting firm. Our client, an innovative advertising startup, is seeking a creative Senior Software Engineer with machine learning and distributed computing experience. This is a hands on position that requires extensive development for release in a production environment. The ideal candidate will have good analytical and troubleshooting skills, fluency in coding and excellent communication skills.

Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Python Software Engineer

Our Company

TLists builds search and content management tools that enable leading media companies and the mass-market to take full advantage of Twitter Lists as a brand building content distribution channel.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an intensely talented python engineer to work with our CTO (Stanford Ph.D.) and development crew to contribute to our search platform and API. We like candidates with broad skills, but to stand out you should have an exceptional record at solving hard analytic problems, and building innovative web or data mining applications.

The ideal engineer:
- Has a BA or MS in computer science or a related field (E.g., cognitive science, math, statistics, or linguistics, etc.)

The position comes with equity, competitive salary, health benefits, a great computing setup, and flexible working conditions.

Contact Information

Please contact marguerite (at) tlists (dot) com to learn more about this opportunity.

VP of Engineering / Lead Python Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY USA

Our Company

TLists builds search and content management tools that enable leading media companies and the mass-market to take full advantage of Twitter Lists as a brand building content distribution channel.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a talented and experienced engineer to work alongside our CTO (Stanford Ph.D.) to lead the day-to-day efforts of the engineering team (search/API and web development groups).

The ideal engineer:
- Has an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in CS or a related technical field (E.g., cognitive science, math, statistics, linguistics, etc.) and an exceptional record at solving challenging problems.

- Has had a minimum of 5 years of professional coding experience, ideally with top search / advertising tech / or data mining oriented companies, as well as experience managing others in a team.

- Is experienced with some or all of the following: data mining and statistics, systems architecture, search technology, building large/scalable web services, hadoop, lucene/solr, AWS, Twitter API, Twisted framework.

- Is deeply proficient in python (Django exp a plus), and is quick to learn new languages and technologies (Java and Javascript also pluses).

- Is based in the New York City Area, or willing to relocate.

This position comes with significant equity, competitive salary, health benefits, a great computing setup, and flexible working conditions.

TLists favors a relatively non-hierarchical working environment. As lead, you would spend roughly half your time developing code and the other half mentoring and coordinating the others on the team.

Contact Information

Please contact marguerite (at) tlists (dot) com to learn more about this opportunity.

Knowledge of RESTful architectures and HTTP; familiarity with RDF, OWL and triplestores preferred

Experience with other programming languages, such as PHP, Python, or Ruby preferred

Experience with Web services technologies (SOAP/WSDL) preferred

Experience with the Fedora repository software is preferred

4 OPEN Ph.D. POSITIONS at Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI)

Date: September 25, 2009

Location: Berlin, Germany

We offer 4 OPEN Ph.D. POSITIONS at Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI), Potsdam (Germany) starting on the fourth quarter of 2009

Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) is a privately financed institute
affiliated with the University of Potsdam, Germany.
The Institute's founder and benefactor Professor Hasso Plattner,
who is also co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board of SAP AG,
has created an opportunity for students to experience a unique education in IT systems engineering
in a professional research environment with a strong practice orientation.
(for more information on HPI, c.f. http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/ )

Project Description:

MEDIAGLOBE is part of the THESEUS research program,
initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi),
with the goal of developing a new Internet-based infrastructure
in order to better use and utilize the knowledge available on the Internet.
The focus of the research program is on semantic technologies,
which determine contents (words, images, sounds, and videos)
not through conventional methods (e.g., combinations of letters)
but which are able to recognize and place the meaning of a content in its proper context.
MEDIAGLOBE deals with digitalization, analysis, and semantic retrieval
of historical, documentary audiovisual content.
(for more information on MEDIAGLOBE, c.f. http://theseus-programm.de/theseus-mittelstand-2009/ )

The ideal candidate holds a MS degree in Computer Science or related field
and is able to consider both theoretical and practical/ implementation aspects in her/his work.
Fluent English communication and programming skills are fundamental requirements.
Preferably the candidate has a background in one of the following fields:

semantic web technologies

knowledge representations and ontology engineering

audiovisual retrieval and analysis

semantic search

innovative web development

user interface design for audiovisual content

The position starts as soon as possible and is full-time (40h/week)
for the duration of the project until Oct 2011.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
The successful candidate will work tightly with international partners
and has the possibility to pursue PhD work within the scope of the project.

I’m reaching out to the group on behalf of a Series B semantic web search startup in Menlo Park
that I’m currently working with who is looking for a Sr. Web/Data Mining Engineer
to join their 30-person team on a full-time basis.
This is a priority hire for them, and they’re looking to move quickly.
If you’re interested and would like more details about this opportunity,
feel free to reply directly to me, and I’ll get you the pertinent information accordingly.

Semantic Web Developer Java/Scala - Zurich

Date: ?

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Trialox.org is a startup company at the University of Zurich.
Our aim is to produce an open source platform for semantic applications,
as well as a content management system tailored to the needs
of international not-for-profit organizations.

To extend our developer team,
we are looking for a Senior Developer experienced in programming Semantic Web applications in Java or Scala.
You should have a solid knowledge around Semantic Web technology
and ideally be experienced with the following technologies and methodologies:

J2SE

OSGi (with Declarative Services)

Maven

JAX-RS

Scala

Scrum

Test-Driven Development

Our expectation:

Apart from the technical skills,
we expect you to be motivated to help a small committed team to succeed.
This means that you know how to effectively explain your design choices,
as well as the occasional agreement to a compromise in order to get things done.

What you can expect from us:

We offer a great working environment with cutting-edge technologies,
in a team that's committed to open source and Semantic Web standards.
Our ties to the University allow a continuous exchange with the latest research.
As a company, we are committed to maintaining a great work-life balance.
We offer flexible working hours as well as insurance coverage beyond the legal requirements.

To Apply:

If you are an excellent Software Developer and would like to apply for this position,
please send your CV and a cover letter demonstrating your experience to:

familiar with open source development culture, methodologies, and process.

About Clark & Parsia

Clark & Parsia LLC is a bootstrap startup focusing on solving infrastructure-level problems
in semantic web and related areas;
we focus on automated reasoning, automated planning, information integration,
and ontology-based information systems.
We do advanced R&D in the semantic technologies area and, increasingly,
are focused on commercializing our research into products.

We work in a relaxed, comfortable environment where good communication,
world-class coffee & espresso, great benefits, and competitive salaries rule the day. (Joel Test Score: 9/12)

Clark & Parsia LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

Location: Convention Center

Compensation: Commensurate with skills & experience

Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.

Please, no phone calls about this job!

Please do not contact job poster about other services, products, or commercial interests.

DO YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MIND?

Seeking exceptional social semantic web tech start-up

Date: ?

Location: ?

Do you want to disrupt social networking?
Do you believe that someone has yet to bring a true sense
of purpose, relevancy and broad-scale yet efficient utility to social networking?
Do you have a beautiful mind that can see what is possible and then build it?

I was a co-founder of GoTo.com (later Overture),
where we revolutionized search by inventing the paid search business model.
Now, after a variety of other adventures
including a few years working on the DOE public school reform initiative in NYC
and some time in the Internet space in China,
I am developing a concept to drive social networking to the next level,
moving beyond the existing paradigm of reinforcing existing networks
to one where the network grows in new and useful ways
by making meaningful introductions to people one doesn’t know.

I am looking for an exceptional technical co-founder
who will provide the technical vision to my product vision -
someone who has extensive experience in delivering complex web-based applications of significant scale –
both front end and back end -
and who is extremely well-versed in the web technologies and standards of the “social semantic web”
and is capable of judiciously applying them.
Someone who wants to build a disruptive product
through the innovative application of bleeding edge web 2.0/3.0 technology.
And someone who is an excellent collaborator.

You will be responsible for crystallizing the product strategy with me,
determining the product architecture;
evaluating the right platforms, database strategy and management, languages and technologies to deploy;
and hiring, training and leading an ace technology team to build it.
You should be very proficient in JAVA, AJAX, Flash, and PHP to name just a few.
You should embrace interoperability and data portability
(and the belief that users own their data)
and have experience with OpenID, OAuth, XFN, FOAF, XRD, XMPP, RSS, REST,
the Portable Contacts protocal, and the other building blocks of data portability.
And lastly, but importantly, you should have hands on (applied) experience in social network analysis
and in using machine learning, natural language and text data mining technologies
and other relevant semantic web tools to solve hard problems.
You will have a huge white canvas to work on as you will be coming in on the ground floor of this opportunity.
The one criterion – be passionate about building a powerful and simple platform,
with an elegant and intuitive UI and consumer experience.

The position is based in NY
(no long-distance applications please unless you are prepared to move yourself to NYC or travel back and forth)
and is eligible for possible "CTO" status for the person with the right experience.
Ideally you are in a position to take no (or nominal) salary in favor of significant equity.

If this resonates with you, let’s talk.
I am looking for that rare person everyone is looking for –
someone who brings together that powerful mix of deep technical experience,
a strong personal financial situation, sound business judgment
and the ability to work productively with others.
But changing the world takes amazing people and I am prepared to find that person.
Please send me your resume at stephanie@sarka.us with a few words about your areas of expertise.

p.s. No web shops or other third party providers, please.

Looking for a Partner/CTO

Date: 05-19-2009

Location: ?

Equipped with a business idea in the semantic web world for enterprises and a business background,
I am looking for a partner/CTO to take the technical lead on the startup that I am working on.
This is an opportunity to get involved with a pre-funding start-up as a founding partner.
If you are available, open for a non-paid / equity job,
and are interested in getting involved in a start-up adventure, please get in touch.
I’m happy to discuss the project in greater detail.

Please contact me at boaz_cn@hotmail.com (Boaz)

Chief Architect, Financial Times Search (FTS)

Date: April 13, 2009

Job Description: Chief Architect

Reports To: Chief Technology Officer

Location: Stamford, CT

Here’s something to take note of if you are experienced in search and intelligent systems.

If you are creative, AND quantitative, we have an extraordinary opportunity for you.
Think of us as the place for which you got all of that education and experience.
If you think you might just be the right person who is interested in aiding people
with the burning questions of their day,
leveraged and fortified with sophisticated computer software
and have a demonstrated interest in AI or natural language processing,
we have a place for you to expand your horizons.

Financial Times Search (FTS)
(part of the Financial Times Group in turn part of Pearson the largest education publisher in the world)
is a new business utilizing a unique and proprietary search platform.
Our new stand-alone search product is called Newssift
and will soon be indexing tens of thousands of sources and many millions of articles for business people.
Our Beta is up and working at Newssift.com.

This startup stands to deliver targeted search results
with a level of accuracy and relevance unmatched on the web today
and we would like to engage an experienced technical manager
to help plan and scope the engineering and significant product aspects of this business.
Check the product and the reviews out on the web and you will see we are on to something.

Position Summary:

Responsible for architecture of a semantic based search product.
Researches, analyzes, and recommends technologies
to develop new and enhance existing systems to support semantic search applications.
Serves as a technical expert and is responsible for resolving complex problems
and guiding development to improve www.newssift.com, a consumer facing search application.
The role, while focusing on search,
will also interface with building systems around a subscription based product
as well as monitoring and measurement tools.
A command of building systems around where to go to answer a business person’s questions
is the main focus of the job.

Required Skills and Experience:

Experience with mentoring software development resources.

Experience with scoping the technical side of consumer facing products that require scale and contextual consumer experiences.

Experience with understanding traffic flows and consumer choices. Ideally the candidate has experience with mining historical consumer choice data to make a service more intelligent about consumer options.

Experience in technical architectures for search applications, including data structures and algorithms to support entity extraction, disambiguation, normalization and clustering.

Experience with architecture models and design patterns to support development and maintenance of taxonomies and knowledge bases. Ideal candidate has been working on ways to do this in an open wiki way or by using data available from multiple sources.

Required Minimum Education:

Master’s Degree in Computer Sciences or computational linguistics or equivalent field or related experience.

Think about it.
One of the world’s largest companies, committed to education and information,
is on the leading edge of introducing a meaning based search and query tool.
Indeed we have a platform off of which to work, and a beachhead in the market.
If you have your sights set high – you should follow up with this one.

Only highly motivated and very smart folks need apply to Susan Blank at susankb48@msn.com

Financial Times Search (FTS) is a new business utilizing a unique and proprietary search engine
consistent with the heritage of the Financial Times.
FTS yields targeted search results with a level of accuracy and relevance unmatched on the web today.
FTS is a member of the Financial Times Group, part of Pearson PLC,
the world’s largest educational publisher
and owner of familiar businesses, including Prentice Hall and Penguin Books.

Position Overview:

We’re looking for a web tier/UI developer
with demonstrable experience developing high-performance dynamic user interfaces for consumer-facing web sites.
The ideal candidate will have the skills to develop, enhance and maintain a Rich Internet Application (RIA).

BS CS/EE or equivalent technical degree with a minimum of 3 years real-world experience.

Think about it.
One of the world’s largest companies, committed to education and information,
is on the leading edge of introducing a meaning based search and query tool.
Indeed we have a platform off of which to work, and a beachhead in the market.
If you have your sights set high – you should follow up with this one.

Only highly motivated and very smart folks need apply to Susan Blank at susankb48@msn.com

Elsevier is currently seeking a VP, Search and Semantic Technology
to identify with the needs of electronic publishing
and define a search and discovery technology strategy for next generation electronic products.
This position works closely with Elsevier product management, Labs, Enterprise Architecture,
and Elsevier divisional strategy
to ensure that the semantic technologies implement and inform the product vision.

Responsibilities include:

Test, implement, program and evaluate search engines and partnerships

Keep current with cutting edge research in semantic technologies and translate these into practical timelines for Elsevier

Analyze implications of integrating new semantic technologies from both a technical perspective and a user/customer perspective.

Work with product strategy to inform and help shape step changes in customer value

Work with engineering development managers on assigned projects to plan integration of new technologies

Define solutions and evaluate trade-offs for epublishing needs as related to search and other semantic capabilities

Work with product architects to ensure that the search technologies meets the specific business needs of future products

Manage, develop and own high level technical proposals and effort estimates as the initial piece of the overall product process

Determine and recommend technical skills needed to complete a project

Responsible for the knowledge transfer of information throughout Elsevier and with the engineering product groups regarding technical issues as related to search and semantic technologies

Significantly contribute to knowledge base throughout Elsevier in the form of technical talks, white papers and seminars on technology that support the electronic publishing efforts throughout the business units

Contribute to overall platform and technology directions for Elsevier with an emphasis on search

Provide Consulting role to projects and product groups for the key search-related technology issues for their business

Funded Startup is Looking for a Experienced Java Engineer

Date: 02-25-2009

Location: New York, NY, USA

AdaptiveBlue (http://getglue.com) is an innovative, well funded semantic web startup in New York City,
named among the 250 best startups around the world by AlwaysOn Network.
AdaptiveBlue is focused on results in a fast-paced environment.

We are looking for talented, smart, hard working, experienced and passionate Java Engineer
to help us build the next generation of web browsing technologies.

You will be working on AdaptiveBlue's back end - web service, database, and metrics.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in the semantic technologies,
skilled with algorithms, and proficient in Java.

If you love coding and want to work on exciting things
that change the way people interact with the web, please send us all of the items below:

A cover letter describing why you are a good fit

A resume with your experiences

A sample of Java code that you have written in the past year

Compensation: Solid base + 401k + stock options

Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.

Please, no phone calls about this job!

Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

Contact: job-1049787041@craigslist.org

Full-time Permanent Semantic Java Software Engineer

Date: 02-24-2009

Job Category:
Semantic Java Software Engineer

Location:
Boston, MA, USA - Metro/West

Job Description:
We are seeking a full-time permanent semantic java software engineer for our client in the Metro-Boston area.
If you are interested in building a semantic engine -
do you consider yourself an ontology expert?
Know RDF and/or OWL inside and out?
We've got a cool project converting a .Net platform into a Java platform.
We need a strong coder...
someone who really really enjoys coding with commercial products experience and a great attitude.
This you? Give us a call.

Job Description:
Artificial Intelligence Software Developers needed
for cutting-edge Computational Social Science simulation project.
Will be working in a Team-based environment with other SW developers.

Potential Task areas include:

Scientific Experimentation and Data Mining: Enhance existing software to support finding patterns in wargame events, for the purposes of testing hypotheses about relations between events and for discovering relationships between events. Incorporate open source data mining and artificial intelligence software, such as, for example, Weka and ECJ, to automatically find patterns in moves and outcomes

Interoperation of Hybrid Models: Support the interoperation of hybrid models, to ensure that models that have multiple resolutions and perspectives share meaning. Through xml, implement the translations between models. Integrate with integration tools that support semantic interoperation through ontologies, and other methodologies such as, for example, the COMPOEX backplane or Ptolemy. Help implement a Hub and Spoke design for translation between data models a system by which simulation models and data of different data models may interoperate through their own individual data models, a common data model, and a translation data model between their own individual data models and the common data model. Enhance the software enforcement of a data model "contract" using ontology-based software engineering techniques. Extend an existing example implemented in Jena and Jastor, converting it to a Dynamic Object Model (DOM) language (such as, for example, Groovy).

Support for Conflict Resolution between models. Support the conflict resolution of possibly conflicting hybrid models, for the purposes of making a unified, coherent picture of the social environment.

Integrate open source software (such as, for example, JFuzzyLogic) to match the simulation output to correlative social study data, and establish the correlative relations that should exist between and within component social science models in support of validation and consensus building of possibly conflicting models.
Implement a framework for consensus-building. Make possible the specification of arbitrary schemes for developing a model consensus. The framework would have a way to handle issues of integration, for example, the models may conflict by having mutually exclusive or uncorrelated behaviors. The framework would allow various consensus schemes to be switched in and out. Implement a simple prototype weighted voting scheme in the framework

Support for Component Models. Enhance the Nexus Intelligent Adaptive Agent Based Models to increase their generality, scalability, efficiency, and ability to work as component models for other software.

Contact:
Debbie Duong
debbieduong62 at gmail.com

Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy Studies, Duke University

Duke University
Sanford Institute of Public Policy

Date: ?

Location: Durham, NC, USA

The Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University seeks applicants
for the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy Studies,
an endowed chair in Duke’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.

We seek a person who will help in the development of a new field, computational journalism.
Advances in data availability, technology, and algorithms offer the prospect
that part of the media’s watchdog function may be supplemented by analyses done by computers.
The Knight Professor at Duke will help translate advances
in areas such as artificial intelligence and the semantic web
into the development of products that help journalists and other community members
hold institutions accountable.
In part, this may involve computerizing aspects of investigative reporting.

Candidates for the chair should have experience in working
at the intersection of technology and information generation.
They may be working in computer assisted reporting, or visualization of data on the Web,
or the development of algorithms to sift through publicly available data
for clues to the performance of government.
Ideal candidates could include reporters or editors involved in innovations in digital news ventures
or programmers involved in the development of artificial intelligence or semantic web products
aimed at news gathering and reporting.
Candidates should be strongly committed to advancing the development of computational journalism as a field
through innovative research and the development of new digital tools.

The Knight Professor will teach courses in computational journalism and public policy
in our undergraduate public policy major and certificate program in policy journalism and media studies.
The Knight Professor will play a key role in the teaching, research and policy engagement activities
of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.

Review of applications will begin immediately.
Applications received by December 31, 2008 will be guaranteed full consideration.

Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Executive Director Emerging Platforms ORGANIC, INC.

Date: 10-23-08

Location: New York, NY, USA

Area code: 212

Pay rate: open

Experience: Exceptional Experience.

Organic is all about the exceptional.
We are a leading digital communications agency –
the first, in fact – focused on designing and building exceptional experiences
that help make the online channel really work for leading companies.
We work on everything digital – from websites to online marketing campaigns,
from mobile applications to digital billboards –
for companies such as Chrysler LLC, Warner Bros. International, Geek Squad and Bank of America.
We are passionate about emerging platforms,
and this helps keep us on the edge of the hottest and most interesting stories in the industry.
And, as a leader in the marketplace, we have the opportunity to work on really exciting projects.

Organic has an open, diverse culture that encourages participation and innovation.
We reward exceptional work and creative ideas.
At Organic we believe in working hard and having fun while we’re doing it.
We have great benefits and perks including massages, pet insurance, Wednesday bagels and Friday cocktails.

Job Description:

The Executive Director of Emerging Platforms leads client innovation in the areas of new media technologies, platforms and networks.

Oversees the Emerging Platform team which is comprised of strategist and interactive technology developers.

Provides clients with an outward looking perspective of the new media landscape and demonstrates what clients should expect and how these developments may impact their online experience, business, industry, competition and customers.

Leads the rapid prototyping initiative for Organic.

Develop internal projects and employee education programs to demonstrate new technologies to Organic employees with the hope of eventual client education and suggestion.

Builds and manages connections to the new media industry to identify new opportunities for Organic clients and Organic employees (toolsets, frameworks and development technologies).

Web 2.0 Build Out

Date: 10-22-2008

Location: New York, NY, USA

What if there was absolutely nothing stopping you from inventing the next big thing?
What would you do if you had a clear voice in developing the next generation of web based information services?
How would you respond if you had the opportunity to be a creative force
in one of the most unique and inspiring work cultures in NYC?

Our client is a startup web unit within a global telecom leader,
launching a mobile and web based platform
that will revolutionize the way consumers interact with and manage information.
They are early in development and building a team of innovative, intelligent professionals who love what they do.
We are looking for people who are obsessed with web technology, creative in their process
and can thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast paced environment.
Our ideal candidates work very well within a team, are self-motivated,
have a high level of energy and a strong drive to succeed.
They must have a passion for the internet and be current with cutting edge web trends and technologies.

Primary Responsibilities:

Work as key member of a small team developing foundational systems and services for an outstanding web 2.0 platform

Work with vendors and agencies to integrate products and services into platform

Hands on development of web systems and projects

Requirements:

Development experience in standard internet technologies

Experience in an SOA environment is preferred

Linux deployment

Solid Python development skills

System design experience preferred

Track record of successful releases

Experience with large scale distributed systems

RESTful services a plus

JavaScripting, JSON, XML, Ruby, Erlang all a plus

Interested candidates email resumes to jim@execuseek.net

Program Manager with Ontology and Taxonomy/OWL

Skills: Taxonomy Ontology tools OWL+ Media Endeca

Date: 7-1-2008

Location: New York, NY, USA

Area code: 212

Pay rate: open

Job Description:

This individual will be responsible for multiple aspects of simultaneous long term projects including:
Consolidating project plans, responsibility for deadlines, ongoing support,
implementation and coordination and overall delivery of multiple inter-related projects.

Accountable for the on time and on budget completion of these projects,
the Program Manager will define, coordinate and lead a blended team
thus requiring regular interaction with business, editorial, production, marketing, design and development factions
of the internet organizations.
The individual is expected to regularly participate in all phases of project development
with a strong team-oriented attitude.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal are essential,
as is the ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects in a dynamic, challenging, and fast-paced environment.

Requirements:

Candidates will possess a Bachelor's Degree in a related field

5-7 years Project Management Experience with solid experience working in a cross-functional environment.

This person will be a **manager of project managers** and should have experience pulling together very large programs of projects with multiple large interrelated subprojects

Experience with search technologies is a must; specific experience with Endeca a major plus

Experience with taxonomy / ontology tools a must; specific experience with OWL-based technologies a major plus

Requires a high-level understanding of the integration of search and taxonomy/ontology tools with a content management system

Online Publishing / Media experience a huge plus

GREAT interpersonal skills

this person will interface with the project managers, functional managers, and will be required to have frequent written and face-to-face communications with senior management

Managing software vendor relationships and coordinates training, documentation, and communication with IT and the Titles.

Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

Creates and executes an aggregate program view of interrelated projects and has the ability to recognize, surface, and resolve issues across the program.

PMI Certification is preferred, but not mandatory.

Experienced with Web based projects, preferably in the online content/publishing space.

Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors in an engaging, informative, well-organized format. Must be able to effectively tailor communications of complex issues to audiences with varying levels of subject matter expertise.

Acquires / possesses a thorough understanding of our capabilities.

Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion and understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.

Motivates team to work together in the most efficient manner.

Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions.

Semantic Web Senior Java Developer -- Alitora Systems

We are building the first true commercial Semantic Web Service as a SaaS platform.
We are primarily serving the Life Science Industry, such as the pharmaceutical industry,
which requires a huge amount of critical high value data
to support Drug Development, Competitive Intelligence, and Business Development.

Our core technology is the kHarmony Semantic Database:
a general hyper-graph database used to store knowledge modeled semantically.

We are seeking a senior developer with significant Java experience, including:

Small, established startup (http://clarkparsia.com/) in downtown DC
seeks an experienced, systems-level Java programmer
to work on R&D projects and production systems in semantic technologies,
including reasoning, planning, description logics, semantic web services, logistics, etc.
Join the team responsible for Pellet, the leading OWL DL reasoner.

The successful applicant will be smart and have a demonstrable record of getting things done.

To apply, send resume and a cover letter to Kendall Clark, kendall@clarkparsia.com.

Ontology Modeler Systems Engineer, Mountain View CA

Date: ?

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA

My client is in Mountain View CA.
They are looking for an Ontology Modeler/Systems Engineer.
The primary focus will be on developing information models for Aerospace Vehicles and Systems.
This includes general enterprise architecture modeling (e.g., organizations, processes, tools)
as well as models specific to engineering domains (e.g., vehicles, sub-systems, devices and functions).
You will be using Semantic Web standards (RDF and OWL) and XML.
Any knowledge of these technologies is a big plus, but we will train the right person.

This position requires:

More than 5 years of modeling experience (either object modeling, system modeling, data modeling or knowledge modeling)

Knowledge of space systems and their engineering disciplines is a distinct advantage.
This includes avionics, mechanics, hydraulics, propulsion, guidance and navigation,
telemetry and control systems. Some past or current programming skills will be an advantage,
especially in Java, Prolog, or a functional language such as Haskell.

The ideal candidate would also have one (or more) of the following qualifications.
Knowledge and experience of:

The person should enjoy working on challenging problems, be a self starter,
have strong communication skills and be ready to show a lot of initiative.
He/she should want to work in a dynamic and growing small company
with collegial culture and many opportunities to learn and do different things.

We offer competitive salary, bonus, major medical, dental, and an attractive stock option plan.
The position is in our Mountain View, California location.
We will provide assistance with the relocation expenses.

Mary Frances Hunter
503 232 8822Recruiter Extraordinaire

Software Engineer, Mountain View CA

Date: ?

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA

My client is in Mountain View CA. They are looking for Software Engineers who know server-side Java development and want to work on a Semantic Web product.

The Product Suite is built on Eclipse but with a Web UI. They want to add more features. This involves design, development, test and integration of the new features. We need someone who is a self-starter, as there is little supervision. There is collaboration.

New feature may include the importing and exporting of data, merging and transferring data, connecting to external data bases, managing changes to forms…..

Senior Engineer, Semantic Web Datastore

ITA Software -- known for its algorithm-intensive airfare search and reservations products --
has also been doing novel Semantic Web and Data Integration work since 2004.
We're now turning the corner from research to deployment
and seek the right person to engineer our data store for scalability and performance.
Follow the link above for details.

[Thanks, Marco, for inviting me to post here! -JustinITA]

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The department of Collection Information & Access at the J. Paul Getty Museum
is seeking an Information Architect to oversee the back-end structure, data models, systems and applications
used by the Museum to support the management and dissemination of documentation, digital assets, and metadata
on the collection and to ensure its accessibility in the networked environment.
The Information Architect will lead efforts in restructuring the way information
is stored, systems integrated, and data published
so as best to ensure efficiency in processes, scalability and sustainability, and resource discovery.
This will involve architectural designs, analysis, integration, and strategic direction
for how best to manage existing enterprise-wide applications
such as collections management, content management and digital asset management systems
with other custom grown applications and open source solutions,
in addition to overseeing data modeling and strategies that are system independent.
The position will be responsible for the maintenance of data models, data dictionaries, and processes;
work with technical staff across the Getty to build mechanisms
for exchanging data and metadata between repositories;
and work closely with user communities
for requirements analysis, problem definition and solutions development.

The ideal candidate will utilize standards, best practices, and forward-thinking solutions
for structuring the Museum's information architecture,
and be able to provide analysis, documentation, and ROI for strategies.
The candidate should have experience in all phases of the software development cycle;
understand and be technically proficient in the environments
in which software applications operate (i.e. Unix, Windows);
have familiarity with semantic technologies
including triple stores, natural language processing, and clustering techniques.
The candidate should be comfortable with writing technical documentation and design documents,
outlining detailed process flow and workflow mappings, have strong analytical skills,
excellent oral and written communication skills,
and the ability to effectively work in a team environment.

Requirements: Proven experience working with relational databases (Oracle 10g), SQL Server and using Structured Query Language; familiarity with "C++", JAVA or similar object-oriented programming language; and proficient at UNIX scripting languages; JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML and XSLT. Working knowledge of ontologies and ontology standards like RDF and concepts associated with the Semantic Web.

Start-up Seeking Software Engineer Computational Linguistics

We are a data driven start-up looking for a CTO to build a social media analytics application
using Natural Language Processing with experience in web-scraping and text mining.
Candidate will develop methodologies to find sentiment
(sentiment in context, polarity, intensity, relationships between issues and reasons for issues),
tuning for less formal content (tokenization, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech (POS) tagging, parsing, etc.)
and finding embedded meaning and intelligence in less grammatical text.
Experience in predictive modeling in data mining a plus.

Qualifications:

2-4 years experience in a relevant field such as software engineering, machine learning programming, et al.

The drive to work in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary start-up environment.

A strong interest in online social networks and network/user dynamics.

PhD in a computational linguistics (or related field) required.

Experience in database design and search algorithms.

Experience with Python/MySQL/R and SaaS is preferred but not required.

Excellent documentation & whitepaper authoring skills.

Patent filing experience preferred.

I am looking for an exceptional management team member who will provide design the product vision
and has extensive experience in delivering complex web-based applications of significant scale
versed in the social semantic web.
Feedback of the product framework has been extremely positive;
we are looking to build a working prototype of site.
There is no direct compensation for this role.
Equity stake in company for right candidate.
This role will become a full time position once funded.

This position will require telecommuting as we are located in Newburyport, MA.